empty words

Let us hope that these will not be empty words!

You had to say things like that, empty words though they might be.

"This is much more important that empty words about human rights."

In another man's mouth they might have seemed empty words.

Otherwise, they will just stay on paper and be empty words.

All those empty words, but he has not said how we are supposed to do this.

But priorities without a clear plan of action are just empty words.

We hope however that these proposals are not just empty words.

"There will be a clear issue, not just empty words."

Will you live up to your treaty, or is it just empty words?

I looked away as the disbelief in their eyes turned the empty words back on me.

These are not merely empty words with no real meaning.

Without a budget line, the entire strategy would be no more than empty words.

However, all these schemes amount to empty words, because nothing is actually being done.

That promise was just empty words when we see what is happening.

Instead of empty words, we need, therefore, to break with the policies that created the current situation.

I will not work for him on empty words alone from an Englishman.

"To talk of thanks at a time like this is to use empty words.

He felt uncomfortably sure that the girl had seen through his empty words.

The empty words made him pause that one initial moment.

By habit his eyes focused on the empty words "what we might become if."

All too often, however, the guidelines appear to be empty words that are not followed by action.

For the Arab world, democracy and human rights have obviously never been much more than empty words.

A good declaration, however, must not remain mere empty words.

With the bilateral strategy, that vision is just empty words.